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Open Call: Vibrant Minds

Digital Storytelling and mobile reporting using Instagram

Young journalists, activists, engaged students and fresh university graduates from Southeast Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand are invited to submit their applications for workshops mainly via video conferencing and production support. The theme of the workshops is contemporary social media journalism with a focus on underrepresented perspectives and discourses.

Workshop participants will benefit from the following services and expectations

Opportunity to establish partnerships with colleagues from the countries mentioned above

Share experience and gain new knowledge in the field of social media

Professional analysis of social media journalism and target groups

Participation in a design sprint

Learning advanced online tools

Support in creating and developing “story containers” for social media

Toolkit for professional community building

Programme

The preparatory online workshops will take place from 29 June to 3 July 2020.

From August on, we expect the selected participants to work in two-person teams to provide content on the selected platform (e.g. an Instagram channel) to a self-selected but coordinated topic every month until December (5 times in total).

23–24 July 2020: Topic planning

7 August 2020: Brief check of the planned release and assistance for story production

8 August 2020: Launch of the new Instagram account (name to be confirmed)

8 January 2021: Final project result, perspectives

During this production period, we expect the team members to exhibit strong commitment and a high degree of self-organization.

HOW DO I APPLY?

This call for participation is open to interested individuals. The following materials must be submitted by 12 p.m. on 10 June 2020 (Jakarta time):

A three to five minute video (portrait format) on the following topic: “What does Family mean to you?”. Maximum size 1 GB.

A short one-page curriculum vitae.

A letter of motivation (maximum 200 words).Both documents must be submitted together in one PDF file and must not exceed 2 MB.

Participants will be selected on the basis of the following criteria

Creative Approach to the subject

Technical implementation

Experience in social media

Proficiency in English at a level that would enable participation in the workshops and production process

our team

The course lecturers and consultants are a team of leading practitioners in Germany led by Verena Lammert. Lammert is the initiator and producer of the Instagram channel “Mädelsabende” and was awarded the Grimme Online Award, the most important prize for quality media in Germany.